Addressing the challenge of quantifying exposure to low-quality news sources on social media, our latest study combines NewsGuard assessments with Meta’s URL Shares Dataset. This approach, initially developed by Andy Guess and colleagues for their U.S. study, has been adapted to the European context, specifically focusing on Germany, France, and Italy from 2019 to 2022. Our analysis shows a decrease in the total number of URLs shared on Facebook and an increase in the sharing of untrustworthy links during election years in Germany and Italy. However, this increase did not result in a proportional rise in views from these sources.
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Giglietto, F., Righetti, N., Rossi, L., & Marino, G. (2020). It takes a village to manipulate the media: coordinated link sharing behavior during 2018 and 2019 Italian elections. Information, Communication and Society, 1–25.
Giglietto, F., Righetti, N., & Marino, G. (2019). Understanding Coordinated and Inauthentic Link Sharing Behavior on Facebook in the Run-up to 2018 General Election and 2019 European Election in Italy. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/3jteh
Giglietto, F., Valeriani, A., Righetti, N., & Marino, G. (2019). Diverging patterns of interaction around news on social media: insularity and partisanship during the 2018 Italian election campaign. Information, Communication and Society, 22(11), 1610–1629.
Giglietto, F., Righetti, N., Marino, G., & Rossi, L. (2019). Multi-party media partisanship attention score. Estimating partisan attention of news media sources using Twitter data in the lead-up to 2018 Italian election. Comunicazione politica, 20(1), 85–108.
Fabio Giglietto; Augusto Valeriani; Nicola Righetti; Giada Marino, Ogni comunità è un isola? Polarizzazione, Amplificazione e re-framing dell'informazione sui social media, in: Niente di nuovo sul fronte mediale. Agenda pubblica e campagna elettorale, Milano, FancoAngeli, 2019, pp. 131 - 146.
Nicola Righetti, Fabio Giglietto, Giada Marino, L'Europa fra casa e gabbia. Tono, frame ed engagement delle notizie sulle istituzioni europee nei mesi precedenti le elezioni 2018, in "Problemi dell'informazione, Rivista quadrimestrale" 1/2019, pp. 87-116.
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